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Word formation is important in ALL PARTS of the IELTS Test because:
It’s no good just learning lists of word. You have to practise using them.
All of the sentences I’ve used in the practice sections are particularly USEFUL for using in your Writing Task 2.
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This is an IELTS-related Reading about the electrification of a road in Sweden.
You can easily guess what the article will be about because you know the word ‘electric‘.
If you learn word forms, you will be able to recognise ‘electrify‘ as a verb (like simplify or modify) and I’m sure you’ve seen its noun form in other words (like simplification or modification). So this will help you work out the word from context.
Make sure that you write down word forms like this when you’re reading.
Also, think about how this can help your writing.
The title of the article is:
‘World’s first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden’
So what does it mean? What do you think? Choose one of the sentences below:
You’re right! They all mean the same thing! But which one sounds better?
‘Electric/electricity’ are quite simple words that are probably similar in your language or you learn them when you are a Beginner. So using these words correctly might get you a Band 5/6 in your Writing.
However ‘electrify/electrified’ are far less common and more sophisticated – closer to a Band 6 or 7.
And if you use ‘electrification’ in a Task 2 essay about the solution to pollution in towns, I’m pretty sure you’d get an 8 for vocabulary range, precision and flexibility!
This quiz practices a set of irregular verbs taken from the Word Formation booklet.
Adjective – Noun – Verb
long – length – lengthen
strong- strength – strengthen
deep – depth- deepen
wide – width – widen
broad – breadth – broaden
high – height – heighten
weak – weakness – weaken
short – shortage – shorten
low – (no noun form) – lower
large – (no noun form) – enlarge
The topic of crime has many examples of words that can be reused in different forms e.g. crime/criminal, offence/offender, punish/punishment, deter/deterrent.
What are the benefits of this kind of culture? Well firstly, because it’s found in large organisations, its fixed costs, or overheads as they’re known, are low in relation to its output, or what it produces. In other words it can achieve economies of scale.
Advantages
And secondly, It is particularly successful in business markets where technical expertise is important
Disadvantages
On the other hand, this culture is often very slow to recognise the need for change, and even slower to react.
Suitable employee
What kind of person does this type of culture suit? Well it suits employees who value security, and who don’t particularly want to have responsibility.
Task culture
Moving on now to Task Cultures – this type is found in organisations that are project-oriented. You usually find it where the market for the company’s product is extremely competitive or where the projects themselves have a short life-span. Usually top management delegates the projects, the people and other resources. And once these have been allocated, little day-to-day-control is exercised from the top, because this would seem like ‘breaking the rules’.
Characteristics of organization:
Advantages:
Now one of the major benefits of this culture is that it’s flexible.
The Academic Word List is a good place to start if you are trying to learn higher-level, academic and IELTS-related vocabulary.
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